QUEER CREATIVE
In a world that often doesn’t understand queerness, creative endeavors simultaneously build bridges and provide a relief valve. Our creative initiatives allow Rocky Mountain Equality (RMEQ) to support, foster, and showcase our local queer creative community.
RMEQ leaned into arts and culture in 2023 and hosts a number of queer-created and queer-led events featuring talent across genres. Creativity is foundational to the queer community. These initiatives allow RMEQ to support, foster, and showcase our local queer creative community.
WHAT IS QUEER CREATIVE?
QUEER ARTS ORGANICS
A variety show open mic following Queer Creative Writing Workshop each month that celebrates home-grown art by LGBTQ+ folks. Hosted and curated by Aimee Herman, each month features one or two highlighted performers as well as an opportunity for local musicians, comics, poets, playwrights, performance artists, and creatives of all kinds to take the mic.
COLORADO QUEER COMEDY FESTIVAL
An annual event that highlights LGBTQ+ comics from Colorado and beyond, giving them access to the stage through a weekend of hilarious content unlike any other seen before.
AIMEE HERMAN (THEY)
Aimee Herman is a gay writer and educator. They are the author of the novel, "Everything Grows" (Three Rooms Press) and two full length books of poems, "meant to wake up feeling" (great weather for MEDIA) and "to go without blinking" (BlazeVOX books), in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Aimee currently hosts three literary series in Boulder: Queer Art Organics Open Mic, And Now: Featuring…Variety Show, and Friendship Goodybag Poetry Open Mic. They have performed at various festivals and theaters in NYC and beyond including the NYC Poetry Festival, Bowery Poetry Club and Dixon Place. They are one of the founding members of the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox. Aimee is turned on by public libraries, garage sales and receiving mail.
REN Q. DAWE (HE/THEY)
Ren Q. Dawe is a trans comedian and genderqueer prankster. Lauded as a highly unsuccessful author, Ren is the organizer of the Colorado Queer Comedy Festival, and has been seen in festivals and comedy clubs from New York to Portland to Alaska. They have been featured on 9News, NYCTourism, and NPR. You can catch them on their first national tour, the Pretty Witty Gay Comedy Show, throughout 2024! On the side, Ren works as an educator for LGBTQ+ inclusion and a consultant on trans athlete policy. They currently live in Colorado with their plants and a very pretty boyfriend.
OUR LEAD CREATIVE QUEERS
